Rosette Voorzanger was a daughter of Joseph Voorzanger and Heintje Springer. She married Jakob van der Horst from Hoogeveen on 24 December 1918, a son of Philip van der Horst and Saartje Meiboom. The couple had five children, among them a twin, of whom Hanna died 26 December 1923, only 4 months old. Her daughter Heintje, born in 1914 and married in 1938 to Pieter Rieborn, presumably has survived the war. Her daughters Saartje, Esther and Anna have been killed in the Shoah.
It appeared from the registration card of Rosette’s spouse, that Jakob van der Horst has reported himself as worker in Camp Westerbork early August 1942 without being summoned and that he has been employed as laborer in the Jewish labor camp Linde, south of Zuidwolde, but from where all Jewish forced laborers has been sent back to Camp Westerbork on 3 October 1942. According notes on his registration card, her husband was the first half of November 1942 still in Camp Westerbork where he stayed in barack 84 and 58. Later, Jakob has been sent to Camp Vught, to be employed in the forced labor camp Moerdijk, but from where he has sent back to Camp Westerbork on 3 July 1943, and stayed then in barack 67. After three days, on 6 July Jakob van der Horst was deported to Sobibor, where he has been killed immediately upon arrival there on 9 July 1943. Rosette and her daughter Anna were sent to Sobibor already one month before and killed there.
Rosette and Jakob had two other daughters, Saartje and Esther, who lived at the same address as their parents in Rotterdam. According their registration cards from the Jewish Council, they were sent to Camp Westerbork between 3 and 5 October 1942 and stayed, just as their mother and sister Anna on 7 November in barack 63 and on 13 November in barack 58. On 11 January 1943, both sisters have been deported to Auschwitz, where they lost their lives on 30 April 1943.
Rosette self arrived in Camp Westerbork between 3 and 5 October 1942 too. From her registration card of the Jewish Council, it appeared that she also stayed in barack 63 on 7 November and in barack 58 on 13 November 1942. Rosette and her daughter Anna have been sent to Camp Vught too and to read is on her card that they have been deported from Camp Vught via Camp Westerbork to Sobibor on 8 June 1943, where they have been killed immediately upon arrival there on 11 June 1943.
Rosette Voorzanger was born into a family with in total five children, namely Rosette self, Esther, Jakob, Salomon and Isaac. Presumably Ester and Jakob Voorzanger might have survived the war but Rosette self and her brothers Salomon and Isaac have been killed in the Shoah.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Joseph Voorzanger, the wedding of Rosette Voorzanger to Jakob van der Horst and the family registration card of Jakob van der Horst; the file cabinet of the Jewisch Council, registration cards of Jakob, Anna, Saartje and Esther van der Horst and of Rosette van der Horst-Voorzanger.